Monthly Archives: September 2016

I need to take a vacation. Not from work, but from writing tidbits. I’ve been writing a tidbit once a week for the better part of the last five years. (I was writing at work before I started posting online.) Maybe I’ll skip next week, or maybe not. But it doesn’t matter if I write or not, I’ll still always try to…

As I was taking my son to school this morning, I saw a bicyclist. It was easy to spot him for several reasons. One was that he could be seen with all the headlights passing him by. And he had a flashing reflector under his seat that stood out. The most distinctive feature was that the bicyclist wore a reflective vest with a flashing yellow light in the middle of the back. Since we were passing this bicyclist at speeds of 50 MPH, I’m sure that he was glad that he’d taken extra steps to …

Last week I took a class and became an OSHA certified forklift operator. It was a comparatively short class, but it gave me the basics so I can operate certain types of forklift in the industrial environment. It doesn’t mean I’m a highly skilled forklift operator, but I’ve had the basic training and I know what I need to do to properly operate this piece of equipment. It’s still up to me to remember what I’ve learned and to use it. It’s always my responsibility to …

Yesterday was Labor Day, which traditionally marks the end of summer. One of the headlines on my local newspaper indicated this weekend was quieter than the usual Labor Day weekend as far as traffic and safety accidents – at least in my corner of the world. As I read the article, I got the feeling that the feeling that the reporter had to dig a little to find something she considered newsworthy. Unfortunately, two individuals were listed in the article as fatalities in an accident in a recreational area south from here. Personally, I don’t want to make it easy for any reporter. Some things I can do to stay out of the new is to focus on doing my tasks safely, allow myself time, and in other ways always try to …